Speaking from UN climate talks in Poznan, scientist Tim Flannery says Climate Change Minister Penny Wong needs to bring 'a relish for change' to the negotiations and to the task of transforming Australia's economy. Flannery, co-chair of the Copenhagen Climate Council, says the current round of talks are 'our last chance as a species', describing resistance as 'a suicidal tactic'.
The Climate Institute has today taken out ads in major newspapers in a bid to push companies to reveal their positions on the right 2020 target for Australia and their views on what constitutes a safe, long-term global level of greenhouse gases.
Australia's energy and water infrastructure is highly vulnerable to climate change, the nation's top scientists and engineers have told the Rudd Government. Their report on water, energy, buildings, transport and communications infrastructure recommends that COAG develop planning and design guidelines and deal with 'important' liability concerns.
The Government can improve its climate policies by working with the Greens but seems to favour working with the Coalition to 'brown them down', Greens Senator Christine Milne told the Sydney Institute last night. Meanwhile, Milne tells CE Daily about her involvement in international plans for a World Green Carbon Commission.
An 'immediate injection' of funds is required to provide the computer firepower to feed crucial scientific data into climate policy processes, warns a Department of Climate Change draft of the nation's climate change science agenda for the next decade.
